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'I've tried to make the colours in the video look like Earth would look if you were an astronaut next to Himawari-8 after your eyes adjusted,' Lloyd wrote on his website.

'I work in satellite imagery, and I'm sensitive to people feeling that they're seeing something 'doctored', but the adjustment is what ordinary cameras do automatically.'

The footage shows the Earth on August 5, 2015 and was created by Charlie Loyd , an Oakland-based satellite-imagery analyst for Mapbox. Focused on Japan as its center, Himawari-8 captures images of the western Pacific, Australia, and parts of Asia, Antarctica, and Alaska

Five times in just one minute, the sun rises on the western horizon, moves across the tropics and sets in the east. 'I've tried to make the colours in the video look like Earth would look if you were an astronaut next to Himawari-8 after your eyes adjusted,' Charlie Lloyd wrote

The turquoise in the tropics - especially along southern New Guinea and northern Australia - shows shallow water where bright sand can be seen under a relatively thin layer of ocean.

'Around China, it's air pollution from coal power, plus the naturally muddy water of big rivers,' said Lloyd.

'Around Japan there are some minor plankton blooms as well.'

The storm in the image is Typhoon Soudelor, shown near its peak intensity when winds were blowing at 180mph (285kph).

It was unusual for its strength and had just caused severe damage in the Marianas.